Glossary

Category: C

  • Calcicole, calcicolous

    Only growing on soils with lime.  

  • Calceolate

    Calceolate

    Slippershaped, as in the lip of some orchids; In Calceolaria, partially flat, ending in a hollow hooded tip.  

  • Calceiform

    (Of 3-dimensional structures) slipper or shoe-shaped.  

  • Calcareous

    (Of soils) containing calcium in the form of chalk or lime. Of liming composition. Having the nature of lime; chalky.  

  • Calcarate

    Calcarate

    With a spur; (of stamens or anthers) with elongated sterile portions beneath the thecae and extending below the filament insertion point.  

  • Caespitose

    Caespitose

    Growing in tight groups, the bases of the individual plants touching [preferred term]. Growing in tufts, mats, or clumps. Growing in tufts like turf.  

  • Caesious

    (Colour) variously defined as pale bluegrey or pale blue-green; sometimes defined as with a coating of minute greenish waxy particles that rub off, greenish-pruinose.  

  • Caducous

    Falling off soon after formation, not persistent. The use of ‘early caducous’ or ‘quickly caducous’ is incorrect, ‘falling early’ would be better. Dropping off very early, like the sepals of Podophyllum, which fall as the flower expands.  

  • CaCO3

    Calcium carbonate, lime, chalk.  

  • C3, C4

    Metabolic pathways for carbon dioxide fixation; C3 plants tend to do well in areas of moderate temperatures and plentiful water with high atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, whereas C4 plants have a competitive advantage under hot and arid conditions.